I have the undue privilege of laying the following pieces before you. Though they were not meant as a collection, each of these poems sang harmonious notes along the same fledging chapter of our river. I have carried them with me these last months, turning them over in my mouth like worn and treasured memories. As you read, I hope they tuck themselves under your tongue for the coming back, the wanting more, and the deepening fullness of this bank of poetry.
Abigail Michelini
Poetry Editor
Veiled Student
Jan Ball
Homecoming
Carl Boon
Water Washed
John Sierpinski
youth
Madison Rahner
The Habit of Reading
Devon Miller-Duggan
The man in the River
Catori Sarmiento
Searching the Park for Owls
Linda Dove
Fireflies
Doug Van Hooser
marriage
Tom Daley
Complaints to the Rain
Grant Clauser
Drawing / Blood
Tayler D. Waring
What have you been watching?
Ace Boggess
Crossing
Jim Zola
Moonstone Earring Triangle
Dah Helmer
Released into the Blue
KB Ballentine
Big Mamma's Purse
Branden Janese
A Fancy
Tamara Miles
Between Two Deaths, An Accident
Mary Newell
My Student, Late to Class
Candice Kelsey
Los Portales
Marzelle Robertson
Helpless
Ellen Roberts Young
Wolves
Raven Cole
Driving into Half Moon Bay
Pat Tompkins
If after days on the same island, then it's our timeline I ask
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Inheritance
Stacy W. Dixon
Buffalo Liquor
Greg Rogers
Mother Tongue
Laura Forsey
